God bless! Fr. Colin Tan, S.J., is giving a Catholic perspective
of the above talk at the CANA, The Catholic Centre, 55 Waterloo
Street, 2nd Floor, Wed on Aug 2'06 @ S$10/pax. Pls email to yr
friends.
Registration: email [email protected] or Tel
63364815/63364467.
For the past 10 - 15 years, mega churches preaching Prosperity and
Blessings Gospels are attracting many young professionals and
middle-class families bcos they have total reliance on Dt 28. Why
and how they magnetize non-believers, bewildered Catholics and
Protestants, etc.? Have u known of yr family members and friends
who have left their Protestant and Catholic churches to join such
Prosperity and Blessings Gospels?
Surely the Prosperity and Blessings Gospels churches are practising
what they preaching. But is it authentic and apostolic gospel or
deceiving and false gospels, see the heresies even arising within
the Apostles' communities in the 1st centery!:
Gal 1:6-9 "6 I am amazed that you are
so quickly forsaking the one who called you by (the) grace (of
Christ) for a different gospel 7 (not that there is another). But
there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the
gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should
preach (to you) a gospel other than the one that we preached to
you, let that one be accursed! 9 As we have said before, and now I
say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one
that you received, let that one be accursed!"
2 Pt 3:15-17 "15 And consider the
patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul,
according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you, 16
speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them
there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and
unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the
other scriptures. 17 Therefore, beloved, since you are forewarned,
be on your guard not to be led into the error of the unprincipled
and to fall from your own stability."
